Tulsa Tough Day 2

Tulsa Tough Day 2
Another lap on the Tulsa grid in the Arts district of town. A small elevation gain during the lap made it slightly more interesting than yesterdays flat lap.

After the crash yesterday, I was not sure how the body was going to react to racing. Luckily the race was not so long and I felt pretty okay right from the start. There was a slight change of. tactic today was we notices we were short on riders in the final the prior day. Therefor we decided that only 2 of the 5 riders, Nepo and me, would be focussing on controlling a breakaway. This lap was perfect for that. As the roads were slightly narrower than what we were used to, I was a bit harder to move up from the back of the bunch. in turn, this made it a lot easier to stay at the front of the race once you were there.

The most attacks during the race happened on the slight uphill in the middle of the lap. These were often quite easy to parry as the attacking rider had to stop peddaling during the attack to make the next corners already. This meant that Nepo and I were able to mark every serious move and it even put us in a position to grab a nice $750 bonus!

In the final, the control of the sprinter teams was quite tight and I focussed on helping our sprinter Sven move up and keeping the pace high. Domi and Lukas took over and kept good pressure on the front of the race. In the end, Sven managed a nice 4th place!

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